Ukrainian armored vehicle stands in the street of Kostyantynivka after hitting and killing an 8-year-old girl and her aunt. © Kostyantynivka/vk.me
Radio Free Europe: Unrest In Ukrainian Town After Girl Killed By Armored Vehicle
Authorities in a government-held town in eastern Ukraine have made arrests after violence that followed a road accident in which an armored vehicle struck and killed a young girl.
Angry residents of the Donetsk region town of Kostyantynivka threw stones at a barracks, torched two cars, and overturned a third after servicemen apparently lost control of an armored vehicle on March 16, killing a girl who was about 7 years old and injuring her aunt and a toddler.
Police stepped up patrols to avert any more unrest, Donetsk region police chief Vyacheslav Abroskin said on Facebook on March 17.
Update: Ukraine scrambles to avoid new unrest flashpoint in the east (AP)
WNU Editor: Kostyantynivka is a region in the Donetsk Oblast that has a population of about 90,000 of which 80% are Russian (if not more) .... and the soldiers who control the area are predominantly from Kiev/Western Ukraine .... to say that relations between the two sides are bad is an understatement. The reason why this accident occurred is because the armored vehicle was speeding down the road and it lost control .... but the reason why this vehicle (and others like it) go fast is because these Ukrainian soldiers know that if they do not travel fast .... they could easily be picked off by an RPG/sniper/Molotov cocktail/etc.. This is what I mean by a low-level insurgency now underway in the regions that are now controlled by the Ukrainian military .... the locals want them out and gone .... but Kiev has ordered them to stay .... hence we now have incidents like what happened in Kostyantynivka yesterday .... or like this ..... and in the end the anger and bitterness only intensifies.
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